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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 22d

Here it is! Our long awaited briefing on the very first DinoCon! Was it a worthy successor to TetZooCon? (yes) Find out here! #DinoCon2025 @dinoconuk.bsky.social

Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon!

It’s that time of year again, even though it’s at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, b…

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 21h

Let's bring it home! Part Three of Hubrecht at the Lyceum!

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Hubrecht at the Lyceum – Part 3

It’s time to bring it home, the big project of discussing the seven massive paintings by Marie Hubrecht on the walls of the Joke Smit College, once the Girl’s Lyceum, in Amsterdam. Havi…

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 21h

It's happened a few times. Graham Rosewarne and Giovanni Caselli have also been known to comment on reviews of their own work. - Gemma

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C. M. Kosemen, artist extraordinaire and friend of the blog, just uploaded this lovely review of some very strange French trading cards featuring all sorts of prehistoric critters. If you like Vintage Dinosaur Art give it a watch, you won't regret it!

So Bizarre! 🇫🇷🐍 Reviewing Obscure French Palaeo Trading Cards

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 20d

New crowdfunding campaign funding science just dropped! Spread it, share it, donate!
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Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea

We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary relati...

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 21d

A #DinoConUK-themed article and podcast from @chasmosaurs.bsky.social, yay! chasmosaurs.com/2025/09/23/p...

Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon!

It’s that time of year again, even though it’s at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, b…

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 22d

Here it is! Our long awaited briefing on the very first DinoCon! Was it a worthy successor to TetZooCon? (yes) Find out here! #DinoCon2025 @dinoconuk.bsky.social

Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon!

It’s that time of year again, even though it’s at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, b…

chasmosaurs.com

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 25d

As previously stated, we've had an illness so we haven't been able to release our DinoCon coverage as quickly as we'd hoped. But it's all been recorded now and it's coming in a few days, so look out for that! - Gemma

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · Aug 27

Introducing a crazy new look for Spicomellus, based on new osteoderms unlike anything we've ever seen before. I was brought in to produce a life reconstruction based on the new material, published today in Nature by Maidment et al:

Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · Aug 29

Armoured dinosaurs have of course been on our mind, so a VERY GOOD MORNING to you from this..interesting depiction of a Hylaeosaurus - by “F.John” - from a series of cards produced by a German cocoa company, early 20th Century..

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Colour illustration. A squat Hylaeosaurus sits atop a rocky outcrop, looking somewhat mournful. Its armoured spikes are more like tufts of fur, extending all the way to its strange stumpy tail. Its beaked head looks to the sky, as if asking the creator/illustrator why it has been given such short limbs

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · Aug 29

correct

this is a fantastic blog post

Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here’s a fantastic blog post about the Reichardt Kakao cards, from our friends at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Tiere der Urwelt (Reichardt) – Part 1

And it’s a proper Vintage Dinosaur Art as today, we’re looking at a rather obscure collection of paleoart from the very beginning of the 20th century. Let’s lay down some groundwo…

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here’s a fantastic blog post about the Reichardt Kakao cards, from our friends at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Tiere der Urwelt (Reichardt) – Part 1

And it’s a proper Vintage Dinosaur Art as today, we’re looking at a rather obscure collection of paleoart from the very beginning of the 20th century. Let’s lay down some groundwo…

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · Aug 17

#DinoConUK Wedel: Most sauropod adaptations appear to have worked best at large size. Maybe baby sauropods were just bad at being sauropods. Hence extremely high reproductive output, allowing them to take anything the Earth threw at time. Sadly they could not take everything space threw at them.

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 17

an extremely successful #DinoConUK

met a lot of wonderful people and thank you for everyone that stopped at our shop to grab a little something silly

posing with the velocinator 🤖

photo of petra in a grey t-shirt, holding a skeleton structure model but made from moveable metal and 3D printed parts of a velociraptor on a stand, but it is only one glasses eye while the other is behind the raptor's torso.

photo of fiona in a light blue ammonite shirt holding a 3D and metal printed velociraptor model where you can move each join in a specific way, she is looking at it lovingly like a baby.

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Molly Heady-Carroll @creatureconsultant.bsky.social · Aug 19

#dinoconuk was so inspiring, I should really draw more #dinosaurs! Here's an old piece of #paleoart from 2018. "Raptors at Night". Ink and gel pen on toned paper.

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Thylacereal @thylacereal.bsky.social · Aug 17

The difference between Saturday and Sunday morning at #DinoConUK lol... Maybe I'll be free to attend some talks today, yay!

A table covered with handmade plushies of thylacines and prehistoric animals, including a section of Palaeoplushies on the left

The same table but much, much more sparse... Only 8 plushies

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Molly Heady-Carroll @creatureconsultant.bsky.social · Aug 18

@dinoconuk.bsky.social was A.MA.ZING! Paleo peeps are creative, kind and so generous with their knowledge. I could barely keep up taking notes of all the interesting paleontology/zoology/fabrication information! 🎨🦖 #paleoart #dinosaurs #dinoconuk

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Aug 18

#DinoConUK 2025 is over, and what an amazing success, we the organising team are very proud :) Thanks to everyone who attended and took part - here's to an even bigger and better 2026!

Andy Frazer art at DinoConUK exhibition.

People on stage at DinoConUK costume competition.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Aug 18

What I went to #DinoConUK with... and what came home. Thanks to everyone who visited my stall, said hello, bought books, chatted about neat palaeo stuff, and to the organisers for putting everything together.

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · Aug 20

And that's the first ever #DinoConUK the bag! Did you go? Did you enjoy it? How much swag did you get? Expect our thoughts in podcast form soon! (And thanks to Sara for taking the picture)

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · Aug 12

Another museum? Another museum. Featuring mastodons, moas, plateosaurs and, of course, Plasterosarus himself.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Usually I’m perfectly happy to stay in my lane and review Euro-kitsch. I didn’t really expect to be visiting the United States any time soon. Life takes some unexpected turns, though, a…

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thinking I might write an article for Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs (follow us at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social) on the prehistoric species of Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs! I did a big Twitter thread years ago and could probably go in greater depth than I did at the time. I absolutely adore this game!

Cover for Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs, prominently featuring a charging green T.rex bursting through a stone gateway, knocking over turnstyles in the process. Behind it, a tiger-striped Smilodon and a green Triceratops peer out behind iron bars. The toothy grin of an Apatosaurus is barely visible at top right.

A selection of somewhat crude 3D renders of various dinosaurs (Velociraptor, Styracosaurus, Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Stegosaurus) from Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs. They are framed by a broken, Jurassic Park-style electric fence.

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · Jul 30

¡Hola! ¡Gemma's been to a museum in Spain! ¿Did we enjoy all the animals and mounted skeletons? ¿Is there anything we can learn from the MNCN? ¿And is Gemma going to do the Spanish interpunction thing all the way through? (yes)

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid

¡Hola! Here at Chasmosaurs we observe a Golden Rule when traveling abroad: “any opportunity must be taken to visit a park exhibiting model dinosaurs in the woods, so long as it is within a re…

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · Jul 30

I played this game to death! - Gemma

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · Jul 17

Marc's gone and seen it. Thanks for taking one for the team, Marc.

Jurassic World Rebirth – this is fine

Three years have passed since “the epic conclusion of the Jurassic era”, Jurassic World Dominion, the first in the series that I didn’t bother going to see in the cinema – mostly …

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · Jul 17

Welcome back to Love in the Time of crinoids and brachipods! We're going to look at some more murals by our heroine Marie Hubrecht, but that does mean we're going to leave Dinosaur World behind and move into Deep Time...

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Hubrecht at the Lyceum – Part 2

It’s high time we go back to Amsterdam and talk about the Marie Hubrecht murals at the Joke Smit College. You may or may not recall me talking about the amazing Jurassic/Cretaceous mural. If …

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